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Comment by dimmke

CSS3 and HTML5 are not meaningful semantic version numbers anymore and haven’t been for over a decade.

Both CSS and HTML are considered “living standards” now and no longer use version numbers: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#is-...?

Nesting in CSS became broadly supported in Chromium and other evergreen browsers a few months ago. This is a feature that developers have had to use inside of some kind of tool that compiles down to “regular” CSS since 2006. That’s 17 years. 17 YEARS.

And there was no major announcement when it became supported, just a blog post: https://developer.chrome.com/articles/css-nesting/

Even now, it’s not supported by older versions of iOS/mobile Safari which could easily be 15-20% of a large US based websites’ traffic.

parent dimmke 3 years ago

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